美語情景對話 第241期:The Interview 面試

Todd: So, you're in law school, Travis.

託德：特拉維斯，你上的是法學院。

Travis: Yes, I'm in law school.

特拉維斯：對，我是一名法學院的學生。

Todd: Normally, how do you get a job after you finish law school?

託德：一般來說，你從法學院畢業以後要怎麼找工作呢？

Travis: Well, the law school that I'm at is considered to be a top-tier law school, and so my law school has a lot of power to get companies to actually come to my law school, and interview with students at the school, and the way my law school does it is every year, in the summer, the last week of summer before school starts, they get about 700 firms to come for about one week and interview students on campus and it's called early interview week so during this early interview week, basically the school rents out an entire hotel and every firm will be there for about one day, so, it's like every day you have about 150, 200 firms on any particular day. Each with their own room in the hotel, and so the students will wait in a common area and when it's their time to interview they'll go to a hotel room and knock on the door and go inside and interview with that firm and they'll get maybe 20 or 30 minutes with that firm, and then afterwards if the firm likes them the firm might actually invite them to go to lunch or to go to a dinner that night and they'll be selected so maybe every day, a firm will interview as many as 50 candidates, but only invite maybe 5 or 6 of them to go out to dinner with them that night, so this lasts about 4 or 5 days, and at the end of that, other than being really tired, hopefully you've gotten a couple of job offers, well not job offers, but basically an offer to come back to a second interview, which will hopefully, eventually lead to a job offer. So, for the students it's quite difficult. Over the course of a week some students will interview with as many as 25 firms, over a four or five day period, so they can be interviewing anywhere from five to as many as ten firms in a single day. So if you're interviewing 10 firms in a singe day, each 30 minutes long, you're going to be there a long time. At least 5 or 6 hours of straight interviewing, going from one room to the next room to the next room, to the next room to interview with a firm.

特拉維斯：嗯，我念的法學院被認爲是一流的法學院，我們學院的力量很大，能讓許多公司來學院招聘，學生可以在學校裏進行面試，我們學院每年都會有這種招聘活動，通常是在夏季，夏季學校開學前的最後一個禮拜，一週內大約會有700家公司來學校面試，這被稱爲提前面試周，所以在提前面試周，學校會出租整間旅館，每家公司都會在那裏待上一天的時間，這意味着每天大約有150到200家公司。每家公司都在旅館內擁有各自的房間，學生會在公共區域裏等待，輪到他們進行面試時，就走到旅館房間前敲下門，然後進去進行面試，面試大概會進行20到30分鐘的時間，之後如果那家公司對他們感興趣，那公司可能會邀請他們去吃午餐或是吃晚餐，這樣他們面試成功的可能性就非常大，每家公司大概一天最多面試50名學生，不過可能只會邀請5至6名學生去吃晚餐，這種面試會持續4到5天的時間，最後，除了會感到非常累以外，你可能還會收到一些工作邀請，嗯，不能說是工作邀請，應該是邀請你去進行第二輪面試，這很有可能最終會成爲工作邀請。所以，對學生來說這非常難。在一週的時間內，一些學生最多會面試25家公司，就在4到5天的時間裏，所以他們一天最多會面試5到10家公司。所以如果你一天面試10家公司，每次30分鐘，那你就要在那裏待很長時間。至少是5到6個小時連續不斷的面試進程，從一個房間到另一個房間再到另一個房間，不停地進行面試。

Todd: So it's pretty exhausting.

託德：這真令人疲憊不堪。

Travis: It's really exhausting and I'm not looking forward to it at all.

特拉維斯：真的非常累人，我一點兒也不期待去進行面試。

重點講解：
1. be considered to be
被認爲；被看作；
eg. He is considered to be a hypocrite.
人家認爲他是一個僞君子。
eg. Seeing this bird is considered to be unlucky.
看見這種鳥被認爲是不吉利的。
2. top-tier
頂級的，高級的，一流的；
eg. Early admission is still going strong at many colleges and universities, including many top-tier schools.
提前擇校在許多大學和學院中依然愈演愈烈，包括許多一流學校。
eg. Now with new strength they are surely a big threat for the top-tier teams.
現在他們有了新的力量,看來他們即將成爲那些頂級隊伍的一個大威脅！
3. rent out
出租；租給；
eg. She decided to rent out a room to get extra income.
她爲獲得額外收入決定租出一個房間。
eg. They had to rent out the upstairs to make mortgage payments.
他們不得不將二樓租出去以償付抵押借款。
4. knock on
敲；擊；
eg. She went directly to Simon's apartment and knocked on the door.
她直奔西蒙的房間，敲了敲門。
eg. Please do not enter before knocking on the door.
進來前請先敲門。
5. other than
（用於否定陳述後）除了…以外；
eg. I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free.
我沒有雄心大志，只求自由自在地過幸福生活。
eg. The old man wanted to see nobody other than his grandson.
除了他的孫子之外，這個老人誰也不想見。
6. look forward to sth./doing sth.
期待；盼望；
eg. We look forward to seeing you again.
我們期待着與你再次相見。
eg. That was one of the encouraging things. As long as there's something you can honestly look forward to when you wake up every morning.
當你每天早上醒來，只要有什麼你可以真誠期待的東西，這就是令人鼓舞的事情之一。